Example sentences of "be to say that " in BNC.
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| 1 | My Lords I I 'm to say that this is of course erm a very controversial area and it is quite frank that it should be controversial too . |
| 2 | A natural response to this state of affairs would be to say that theory cut off from the writing of literature is no more than a sterile academicism . |
| 3 | The obvious response to this question would be to say that the school should do all that it reasonably can . |
| 4 | To say that Tit for Tat , say , is an ESS , would be to say that Tit for Tat does well in a climate dominated by Tit for Tat . |
| 5 | If I were to be critical it would be to say that the scratchplates could be finished off more tidily , and occasionally the necks and bodies do n't look entirely new — although that 's hardly surprising , really . |
| 6 | The mode is aptly described as ‘ thinking aloud in verse ’ : another way of putting it , reversing the first account given in this paragraph , would be to say that an argument of the mature poet ( consciousness I ) is illustrated and exemplified by a passage of recollected memory which is relived ( in consciousness II ) . |
| 7 | A simpler way of looking at laicisation might be to say that institutional Christianity has lost some of its functions : most education passes from church to state ; so too do medicine , welfare and human counselling . |
| 8 | One would be to say that the predicating of names like ‘ white ’ does not involve classification ( taking classification to be the performing of tests indicated by the definition of the general name ) . |
| 9 | Another would be to say that whereas some classes ( for example , the class ‘ metal ’ ) are grounded on resemblance in some respect , others ( for example , the class ‘ sensation of white ’ ) are not grounded on resemblance at all . |
| 10 | Another way of putting this would be to say that the perspectival appearance of an object at a point of view is a function of the object 's real figure , its inclination relative to the point of view , and its distance from the point of view , and is a function of nothing else . |
| 11 | It makes no more sense to say that the perspectival appearance is true ( or false ) of the object than it would be to say that the size of the angle of a triangle is true ( or false ) of the other two angles , which determine its size . |
| 12 | One way of expressing this point would be to say that my body as it is for me is sensitive , whereas my body in the midst of the world is sensible ( meaning , to be sensed or perceived ) . |
| 13 | A simpler way of describing its position would be to say that it is part of the transitional zone between the Oriental and Australian regions . |
| 14 | Another approach would be to say that it is I , not some part of me called ‘ reason ’ , which sees that this is how the system of my impulses should be organized . |
| 15 | Another way of putting this would be to say that Althusser demonstrated that according to the protocols of conventional logic , history is impossible . |
| 16 | The temptation for a band may be to say that there is too much hassle attached to gigging in the Soviet Union and to wait for better times . |
| 17 | A second argument which Gordon might use would be to say that the content of the bracket constituting the term furnished tenancy or employee or assault should , itself , be for the relative opinion of the tribunal . |
| 18 | Another way of putting this would be to say that scientific culture was remarkably wide . |
| 19 | Another way of stating this point would be to say that the revival and growth of social movements in those societies which are both economically advanced and have a fairly long tradition of democracy , is a major aspect of that ‘ self-production ’ of society referred to earlier , which exists in some degree already , but is still more an ideal representation of a future form of society , ‘ free of domination ’ , in which the collectivity would really govern itself , by procedures of rational discussion among equal citizens . |
| 20 | I guess my inclination would be to say that there 's only one of those in which we are actually doing the proof . |
| 21 | A reasonable , and perhaps the only plausible , response would be to say that to understand an utterance is to decode or calculate all that might reasonably have been meant by the speaker of the utterance ( cf. |
| 22 | Consequently , the best treatment seems to be to say that stress in words with prefixes is governed by the same rules as those for words without prefixes . |
| 23 | ‘ My father 's old housekeeper — he and she grew old together — has a daughter who needs to make money ; , she lives in Nile Street , and if you were to say that I sent you , she might well be glad to put you up till it is time for you to go to Oxford . ’ |
| 24 | If we were to say that the topic of this discourse fragment is ‘ the meaning of the expression ‘ smoke the houses ’ ' , we could not claim to have said very much of analytic interest . |
| 25 | It would be churlish if I or anyone else were to say that the area should not receive whatever funds are needed to redevelop it . |
| 26 | I 'm quite happy to see if we can what we can do , I ca n't guarantee that my Right Honourable Friend will take a different view , but I 'm content to see what we can do and report if your Lordships think that that is suitable , but if we were to do that My Lord , I think it would mean erm er it would mean that all these amendments which are grouped together should not in fact be , be put t to the vote , I mean that means ever er er all your Lordships because I do n't think it would be very fair if I were to say that I would move mine and the Noble Lord , Lord MacIntosh were c to come along and move his amendment and mine meanwhile has gone down the drainpipe and I do n't think that that would be particularly funny , but the Noble Lord , Lord MacIntosh I 'm sure would n't do such a dastardly thing like that ! |
| 27 | It 's almost as if Rene Kerfante were to say that he ought to tell The Correspondent not to use his typefaces , but they need to get something , I do n't know , more coherent though . |
| 28 | The sensible thing would have been to say that Crabb had been diving in the area to test out equipment and had got into difficulties , surfaced near the Russian ships and then drowned . |
| 29 | He 's been to say that Bernard has put his wrist out , and it being Danny 's day off he went for Bill , but Bill 's gone over to see his mother in Consett , so he says , what about it , sir ? ’ |
| 30 | The approach adopted has been to say that all integral items of the plant described in the schedule are covered and then list those parts excluded in general exception which fall into three categories i.e. |